45 titles compete for the Anim'est trophy

In the short film international competition, 45 titles will compete for the Anim'est Grand Trophy. From countries with a tradition of animation as France and Japan to Ethiopia, through Spain, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Latvia, Russia, Austria, Belgium, Poland or China, New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Mexico and Iran, the Anim'est seventh edition will certainly be a colorful mix and energy from all over the world.

Oh Willy ..., the Belgian animation signed by Emma de Swaef & Marc James Roels comes to Anim'est after it competed at the prestigious festival in Clermont Ferrand, at the same time being nominated for Cartoon d'Or, the most important European award for short film animation. Another film among finalists at Cartoon d'Or is Edmond était un âne/Edmond Was a Donkey (d. Franck Dion), built around a quiet man who begins to discover how different he is. At the Annecy Festival's competition, the largest of its kind in Europe, comes Father, a Bulgaria-Croatia-Germany co-production signed by Ivan Bogdanov, Moritz Mayerhofer, Asparuh Petrov, Veljko Popovic, Rositsa Raleva and Dmitry Yagodina which explores precisely those things unsaid between fathers and children.

Three members of the 2009 and 2010 juries return to Anim'est, this time with short films in competition: this is about Simone Massi, with Dell'ammazzare il maiale / About Killing the Pig, Regina Pessoa, with Kali o pequeno vampire / Kali the Little Vampire and Georges Schwizgebel, now competing with Romance.

The American animator Joan C. Gratz, inventor of the painted clay dolls technique and Oscar winner for Best Short Film in 1992, is also competing with Lost & Found, after being one the guests in the 2011 edition, when she competed with Kubla Khan and supported one masterclass about her very personal method of working.